Natasha Bedingfield - 'Nearly losing my son has made me cherish life more'
ok.co.ukSussex-born Natasha Bedingfield, 42, whose runaway 2004 hit Unwritten has gone viral on TikTok and is back in the UK charts 20 years later, thanks to being featured in US romcom, Sydney Sweeney's film Anyone But You, opened up to OK!
about the time she nearly lost her son Solomon, now 6. Natasha’s only child with her American businessman husband Matt Robinson, Solomon, who the couple welcomed in December 2017, was just two when he developed a serious infection, which led to a brain abscess - and ended up being admitted to hospital in LA, where the family - now based in New York, were living at the time. “Solomon, actually had surgery for a brain abscess just before Covid, when he was two.
He’s 100% OK now, but that’s made me cherish everything more”, she told OK!. “We could have lost our kid.That’s the truth.That’s why I cherish every moment even more now.
Even things like travelling back to the UK and seeing family seem so much sweeter.” Solomon’s illness also had an unexpected effect - it cured Natasha of her germophobia. “I was a total germophobe before Sol went into hospital.Then, spending that long in one, I just… stopped being so paranoid. “I hadn’t realised that germs died after being on surfaces for a while - I thought they lived forever!
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